publicness
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of publicness
Example Sentences
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The activity in wimmelbooks also has a healthy, comfortable publicness, almost as if people on the pages realize the walls of their houses are transparent — and they don’t mind.
From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2018
“It’s just a caffeine delivery mechanism — there’s nothing much to it, in and of itself. It’s the consumption, the publicness of it.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 9, 2017
The collection and release of public government records, court documents, and “open data” sets created and released by the government are often justified because of their publicness.
From Slate • May 19, 2016
A more plausible descriptive account of publicness is what we think of as “common knowledge”—things most of us know.
From Slate • May 19, 2016
Were not his objections as to the publicness of the place, I asked him, as strong now as before?
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Richardson, Samuel
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